Furring nail



Feb. 16 W26.

A. M. JENSEN FURRING NAIL Filed. August 27, 1924 muae 2 FIGURE '5 INVZCfR ATTORNEY Patented Feb. 16, 192a.

PATEN T OFFICE.

ANTON M. JENSEN, OF LOS GATOS, CALIFORNIA.

FURRIN G NAIL.

Application filed August 27, 1924. Serial No. 734,474.

To all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, AN'roN M. JnNsnN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Los (iatos, in the county of Santa Clara and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Furring Nails, of which the following is a specification. i

In the exterior plastering of buildings it is common practice to cover the studding with suitable sheathing, arrange spaced wooden iurring strips thereon, cover the whole with wire netting and then apply a suitable thickness of plaster in such a manner as to entirely iinbed the wire and furring strips therein.

The principal objection to the use of wood flu-ring strips is that'their expansion or contraction through absorption or surrender of moisture breaks the hand between them and the plaster, eventually causing the plaster to crack and in time fall away, this being especially true under extreme conditions of temperature and humidity. \Vhen metal turring strips are used the plaster coat is almost completely divided into numerous sections and therefore greatly weakened by their use.

It is one object of my invention to'provide afin-ring nail that may be quickly and easily applied wherever desired for supporting the wire netting and spacing it as desired from the wall to be plastered.

It is another object of my invention to provide a furring nail so formed as to be econon'iically manufilctured and easily applied to a sheathed wall in such a manner as to positively lock the netting to the wall, and one that w1ll in no way weaken the key between the netting and plaster yet will maintain the netting a uniform distance from the sheathing throughout.

' In the drawing Figure 1 is a perspective View of-the furring nail in its first position when being applied to the netting a portion only of the netting or wire mesh being shown.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the furring nail in its second position when being applied to the wire mesh or netting, a portion onlyof the wire mesh being shown.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the furring nail when in its third and final position on the netting and inserted in the sheathing.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, I show at 1 a fiat metal body portion having a pointed nail portion 2 extending from one edge thereof and oppositely directed, laterally extending fingers 3-3 ar-. ranged one on each side of part 2.

At 44 are oppositely curved fingers extending from the edge of body portion 1 opposite to the pointed nail portion 2 and spaced a distance apart as at 5. These oppositely directed curved fingers form hooks adapted to receive the element or member to be supported.

In applying this nail for supporting a wire netting 6 to a sheathing 7, it is held in such a position that the body 1 lies in a vertical plane and it is then slipped on to the wire 6 with one book 4 above the wire and one hook 4 below the wire as clearly shown in Figure 1.

By turning the nail so that the body portion 1 lies in a horizontal plane one hook 4 engages the wire 6 from below and the other hook 4 engages thewire G from above as shown in igure 2. I

This position of'the nail is indicated by the dotted line 8 in Figure 3, and the curved dotted line 9 indicates the are through which the nail is swung about wire (3 as a center until its pointed portion 2 is presented to the sheathing 7 and into which it'is driven.

The fingers 3 3 operate as stops so that wherever used they hold the netting equidistant from the sheathing 7. The combined length of the nail portion 2, body 1 and hooks 4 is slightly less than the distance 10 of the Wire mesh so that the nail can be swung freely through the netting after being hooked thereon.

It may now be seen that I have provided a nail that is not only quickly and easily applied and economical'to'. manufacture, but one that is eflective, durable, positive as a support and spacing member for the fabric,

and one that supports and strengthens the plaster rather than weakens it as is the case with the customary furring strip.

Attention is also called to the form of the ends of the hooks 4 4, these being flattened in the present case to receive the blows of the hammer. Instead of an unusually heavy blow crushing the netting support as I often occurs in the case of a furring strip, with this device it merely tightens the hooks around the wire 6.

It is to be understood, of course, that while I have herein shown and. described one specific embodiment of my invention, changes in form, construction and method of application may be made within the scope of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A furring element comprising a sheet metal body having an attaching shank and stop fingers on opposite sides of the shank extending in opposite directions therefrom,

- and fabric-attaching fingers extending from the opposite edge of the body and curved outwardly and over the said edge in opposite directions.

' 2. A furring element comprising a sheet metal body having pair-sot spaced fingers on opposite edges thereof, one pair forming stop fingers and the other pair forming fabric-attaching means, saidfabric-attaching fingers being adapted to cooperatively embrace a strand of thefabric being atto which the corresponding stop finger is deflected, and the free outer ends of said fabric-attaching fingers being bent backwardly to the opposite sides of said body.

- ANTON M. JENSEN.

'ing deflected to the opposite side of the body 

